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Show multiple drives as one folder?
Hello!
I have been searching for a smart way of dealing with movies on several HDD, but yet to find something that fits me. I have a big archive, and want it to be visible in 1 directory.
Sofar I have been ok with running 2x 750gb in raid0, for a big nice movie directory.
Now is that I am totally out of space on the raid, and installed a 1tb drive for 2.5tb storage.
I store all the HD material on one machine (general use, gaming, etc) connected to my living room tv, and share it to a Dvico Tvix media extender for the bedroom tv, another desktop pc and to a laptop. (might seem overkill, but it is what it is)
Problem now is that i share the movies across the house on a few diff setups, and players like xbmc doesnt really help me, since for ex the Tvix uses something called "Netshare", and shares the folders i want, but i have to know where they are, and swap from hdd to hdd in the menu to access them, since they are handled separately.
Is there any way for me to use some kind of virtual folder/directory that i can share across the network, and will be seen as just 1 big folder of movies?
I tried using the "library" folder of videos in Windows 7, but does not work well for sharing over the network, netshare wont let me select it.
Only other thought I had is using "extended volume", to extend the current 1.5gb raid. But having a raid0 combined with a "virtual raid" in windows sounds like problems in itself..
My googeling hasnt really payed off, so I dubt there is any way I can solve this.. But still hoping for someone to have an idea!
I can delete the raid, and make 3 separate drives if it would help in any way.
I also tried to mount drives as directories, but it wont let me mount 2 partitions into the same folder..